The sharpe ratio compares the asset's realized excess return to its over a specified period. excess returns measure the amount that investment returns are above the risk-free rate — so investments with returns equal to the risk-free rate will have a sharpe ratio. it follows that over a given time period, investments with sharpe ratios performed better, because they generated higher excess returns per unit of risk. the sharpe ratio is calculated as:

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40